Accession Number | DA12483 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
Maker |
Darge Photographic Company |
Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows |
Date made | c 26 November 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives
Studio portrait of 3902 Private (Pte) John Henry Peach, 6th Battalion. Pte Peach, a native of Birmingham, England, was a wool sampler from Moonee Ponds, Vic prior to enlistment and embarked with the 12th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915. After promotion to Corporal he was killed in action in France on 19 August 1916, aged 42 and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. See also DA12484